Chen Nuo had never particularly liked this guy Li Qingshan before.
This old guy is cunning and greedy, that's all.
The dirty background is not the main reason either.
Brother Lei's background is not clean either, but that doesn't stop him from becoming one of Chen Nuo's most trusted people.
Even though Li Qingshan actually has much greater power and financial resources than Brother Lei, Chen Nuo also knows very well that after bringing Li Qingshan into the small circle, there will definitely be many things that Hall Master Li can use more easily than Brother Lei.
—Chen Nuo still hasn’t brought Li Qingshan in.
One of the main reasons is actually very simple: Hall Master Li is in the flesh business.
This alone is enough for Chen Nuo not to think highly of this old man.
There is also a chain of contempt on the road.
In dealing with Li Qingshan several times before, this old man also made enough gestures to lick himself and helped a lot.
As for the incident in the northwest, when Sun Keke was captured, Li Qingshan also put in a lot of effort.
For this reason, Chen Nuo also felt that he had to repay the favor.
This is also the reason why Chen Nuo is willing to come over at midnight tonight, even if he is not in a good mood and something happens to Li Qingshan.
But, now it seems that he really doesn’t want to help with this favor!
·
"...That's a lot of money."
Li Qingshan lowered his head, his eyes were red, with an expression of regret and guilt on his face, but his words seemed to be making excuses for himself habitually: "It was the 1980s, when my second brother and I were running through life and death in Myanmar.
In business, you can only make tens of thousands of dollars a year, which is still Chinese currency.
More than one million US dollars, you... you don't understand, Chen Nuo.
In that era, such a fortune was enough to make father and son kill each other, and brothers turn against each other!"
Chen Nuo sneered: "So, you were obviously the one who got the death penalty, but your brother went to die on your behalf out of love!
In the end, you swallowed his half of the money?"
"...That's a huge amount of money, too big..."
Chen Nuo no longer wanted to get involved in this matter, and turned around to leave. Li Qingshan suddenly stepped forward and grabbed Chen Nuo's arm.
The old man begged: "Mr. Chen Nuo, help me, at least listen to what I have to say, okay?"
Chen Nuo frowned and looked at Hall Master Li. After all, he still owed him a lot of favors. He thought for a while: "Tell me, what is the situation of your brother's family... now?"
"His mother died of illness ten years ago... Don't look at me like that, I didn't do anything bad! His mother died of a normal illness. I knew about it at the time and helped. I helped the old lady find a hospital and arranged for treatment. The old man
After leaving, I helped with the funeral arrangements."
Chen Nuo's face softened slightly: "What then?"
"He also has a wife and a daughter in Jinling." Li Qingshan whispered: "His wife used to set up a stall in Confucius Temple to sell clothes, and I helped her. I really helped her.
She made a little money from her business, and then saved it. The year before last, she contracted a counter in a shopping mall and still sold clothes.
I just heard that business has been difficult in the past two years. Young people prefer those popular brands and are less and less interested in shopping for clothes in shopping malls. Therefore, her business can only be said to be barely maintained, neither good nor bad.
But, the family should be doing okay."
"Well enough?"
Chen Nuo laughed angrily and pointed at Li Qingshan: "Is it okay? Hall Master Li, it's more than one million U.S. dollars. Now it can be converted into Chinese currency, which is about 10 million."
Well enough?
What is your day like?
What about them? Are they doing 'okay'?"
Li Qingshan was a little ashamed and closed his mouth and stopped talking.
Chen Nuo calmed down his anger, gently shook off Li Qingshan's hand, and sat back on the sofa.
"Go on and tell us what's going on."
Li Qingshan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as the person didn't fall out and walk away on the spot.
"My second brother...he's not dead."
"Well, he's not dead, so you're having a hard time now, right?" Chen Nuo sneered.
Li Qingshan sighed
·
“After I ran away with the money, I ran back to the country with great difficulty.
That money was too big...I couldn't control my greed at that time, so I swallowed it.
I relied on that money to make a fortune step by step and started a business that grew bigger and bigger.
I know I'm sorry for my second brother, he should have half of the money.
But... forget it, I am indeed ashamed of him for this.
I thought he was dead and no one would know about it.
Second brother’s family…
I didn't care about it after I came back.
I am greedy, but I don't really have no conscience at all.
The second brother's wife took her daughter and lived with the second brother's mother at home.
Their whole family seemed unwilling to have contact with me.
It’s no wonder that my second brother and I went to the south to do business. During the few years we were partners, my family actually kept urging him to go back.
So naturally he doesn't have a good look towards me, my friend who does illegal business together.
But that time, when I went back and my second brother didn't go back, they actually hated me in their hearts.
I helped arrange the funeral arrangements for my second brother in Jinling and bought a cemetery in which I buried several clothes and personal belongings left by my second brother. It was also a tribute to their family.
That family was very stubborn.
I felt that my second brother died outside, so I was angry with me and refused to interact with me.
The second brother's wife is not bad, she is decent in appearance, but she is cold and indifferent.
My second brother’s wife scolded me and kicked me out twice.
Later, I couldn't help but come to visit again.
But, in private, my second brother's wife, my sister-in-law, later set up a stall to sell clothes and do small business, and I really helped her secretly.
Otherwise, think about it, in that era, she was a helpless woman who set up a stall in a big market to sell clothes. How could she succeed?
She can continue to do this, and those gangsters who bully the market do not come to trouble her, isn't it because I have people secretly settle things for her?"
Chen Nuo shook his head, his tone sarcastic: "They gave you a life, and you still swallowed half of the money they gave you!
You helped eliminate a few ruffians, does that make you feel better?"
"I..." Li Qingshan was speechless.
"Go on, what next."
"Then, when she was setting up a stall to sell clothes, the good times came during those few years. The business was doing pretty well and she made a little money.
It’s just that people suffered some hardships.”
When Li Qingshan said this, his tone was a bit weird, and Chen Nuo could tell.
"Bitterness? What bitterness?"
"...She...once she went to buy goods. She got a tricycle to haul the goods. When going downhill, she lost control of the car and rolled over. She...
Her leg was broken by a run-in. After it was cured, she now finds it difficult to walk smoothly..."
At this point, seeing Chen Nuo's eyes getting angry again, Li Qingshan quickly said: "That was really an accident! It has nothing to do with me!
It was raining and snowing, and the road was slippery. She went to buy goods alone, but the bags were too heavy and she didn't have enough strength. The car overturned when going downhill...
What a surprise!”
Chen Nuo nodded, but looked at Li Qingshan: "Accident is an accident.
But Hall Master Li, if you hadn’t swallowed this man’s money.
The orphans and widowers can only struggle to survive and make money by themselves.
Why does a woman have to push a three-wheeled truck to restock goods in rainy, snowy, and slippery weather?
If her family had those millions, would she need to fight like this?"
Li Qingshan's expression was bitter: "It's not that I didn't want to help her, but her family was very stubborn and thought that my second brother went out to run business with me, but I came back alive.
Their man died outside inexplicably.
I will be scolded and kicked away if I come to the door...I..."
"Tell me about your second brother." Chen Nuo shook his head: "You are so scared this time. It seems that your second brother is not dead, right?
Moreover, not only is he not dead, he is probably still very powerful now, powerful enough to scare you?"
"He is indeed not dead." When Li Qingshan said this, his expression turned ugly.
·
Back then, Li Qingshan returned to China with a large amount of money and ran back to Jinling City.
At that time, there was no way to go to Myanmar to do business.
The incident of Juntou's mining area being robbed of goods has not yet passed. If he ran back to Myanmar at that time, he would be dead if caught.
Even when Li Qingshan came back to China, he did not dare to contact the domestic jade buyers. He did not dare to contact the people on the line who originally did business on the border.
I'm afraid that the news from Myanmar will spread to China and let those in the jade business know about it.
If people find out that he swallowed more than one million US dollars, he is afraid that people will become greedy and harm him.
Therefore, Li Qingshan quietly took the money and returned to Jinling, almost no longer contacting his old acquaintances in the jade business on the border.
Those people had always thought that Li Qingshan and his second brother had died outside.
A year or two later, Li Qingshan also secretly sent people and envoys to Burma to inquire twice - he himself did not dare to go.
But it is impossible to get any information from this level of inquiry.
So in Li Qingshan's opinion, his second brother should be dead.
Later, because he had such a windfall as capital, coupled with his cunning and vicious temperament, Li Qingshan became prosperous in the next few years, and later, step by step, he became a famous "
Hall Master Li".
Originally, he also secretly took care of his second brother's family.
But because of the indifferent attitude of the woman in that family towards him, Li Qingshan gradually stopped caring about that family's affairs out of various complex emotions such as guilt and embarrassment.
Originally, Li Qingshan thought that this matter would be buried in his heart and would pass like this for the rest of his life.
Unexpectedly, that second brother was actually not dead.
·
After Li Qingshan said this, he got up and walked back to the room. He quickly took out something and put it on the coffee table, then placed it in front of Chen Nuo.
A small cloth bag, opened slightly, revealed a pendant strung with hemp rope.
This thing looks old.
The rope has turned black.
The pendant below is a yellow-orange bullet shell.
Chen Nuo reached out and picked it up, weighed it gently in his hand, and soon discovered that there was a small word carved on the bullet shell.
Chen Nuo nodded: "Fang?"
"My second brother's surname is Fang. This is something he always wore close to his body." Li Qingshan whispered: "This thing was delivered to me yesterday."
"Yesterday? How was it delivered?"
"send by post."
Chen Nuo thought for a while and put the things down.
Li Qingshan's tone became excited: "This pendant was always worn by my second brother! He never left it in those years!
When we... that time, he always wore it around his neck! I remember it clearly!!
This thing was suddenly mailed to me. When I opened it, I was shocked!!
He’s not dead! He came back to me!”
"A person who disappeared for almost twenty years suddenly came back... Your majestic Hall Master Li is not afraid of being like this." Chen Nuo shook his head: "A person like you will never be just because of the shame in his heart.
, I’m afraid it will be like this!
Did he take advantage of your shortcomings? Or did he scare you in some way?"
"He arrested one of my people."
When Li Qingshan said this, his expression gradually changed, revealing a hint of ferocity: "He captured my son!"
Chen Nuo was surprised.
Damn it? Didn’t Li Qingshan say he was an old loser?